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Everything you need to measure AI search visibility.

Learn how to set up projects, add competitors, choose queries, run AI visibility checks, interpret scores, and turn findings into action.

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What focadio does

focadio helps teams understand how their brand appears inside AI-generated answers. It measures visibility across AI engines, compares brand presence against competitors, identifies citation gaps, and prioritizes the queries worth improving first.

Core outputs

  • AI visibility results
  • Mention and citation detection
  • Competitor comparison
  • SERP intelligence
  • GEO Visibility Score
  • Query Opportunity Score
  • Recommended actions
  • Reporting and exports

Create a project

A project represents the brand, domain, market, and language you want to measure.

Required fields

  • Brand name
  • Brand domain
  • Market
  • Language
  • Category
  • Description

Example

Brand: Acme Analytics
Domain: acmeanalytics.com
Market: United States
Language: English
Category: B2B Analytics Software

Best practice — use the same language your buyers would use when they describe your category.

Add competitors

Competitors help focadio compare your brand's visibility against other brands in AI answers.

Recommended setup

Add 3–10 competitors for most audits.

Fields

  • Competitor name
  • Domain
  • Category
  • Notes

Best practice — include direct competitors AND AI-visible alternatives. AI sometimes recommends brands that do not appear in your normal SEO competitor set.

Add queries

Queries are the buyer questions, search terms, and prompts you want to measure.

Query types

  • Commercial investigation
  • Comparison
  • Category discovery
  • Alternative search
  • Problem-aware
  • Solution-aware
  • Best-of
  • "How to"
  • Brand-adjacent

Example queries

best analytics tools for ecommerce brands
Acme Analytics alternatives
how to measure marketing attribution
best customer data platforms for mid-market teams

Best practice — do not only add high-volume SEO keywords. Add the questions buyers would ask an AI assistant before making a decision.

Choose AI engines

Select the AI engines you want to evaluate.

  • ChatGPT
  • Perplexity
  • Gemini
  • Copilot
  • Google AI Overviews

Best practice — start with a smaller set of priority queries across multiple engines, then expand once you identify the highest-value gaps.

Run the audit

When the audit runs, the system checks selected queries across AI engines, evaluates the answer content, detects mentions and citations, compares competitors, and generates scores.

Outputs

  • Visibility results
  • Query scores
  • Competitor gaps
  • Citation URLs
  • Recommended actions

AI Visibility

AI visibility measures whether your brand appears inside generated answers.

  • Being mentioned
  • Being cited
  • Being recommended
  • Being compared
  • Being absent when competitors are present

Prompt cluster

A prompt cluster is a group of related prompts that represent the same buyer intent.

best project management software for startups
top project management tools for small teams
Asana alternatives for startups
which project management tool should a startup use?

AI visibility should be measured at the intent level, not only on one exact prompt.

SERP Intelligence

SERP intelligence analyzes search results and source signals that may influence AI-generated answers.

Signals

  • Top URLs
  • Related questions
  • Competitor domains
  • Search features
  • Source candidates
  • Difficulty indicators

Mention

A mention occurs when an AI-generated answer names your brand.

“Acme Analytics is one option for ecommerce attribution.”

Citation

A citation occurs when an AI-generated answer links to or references a source connected to your brand or a relevant supporting source.

Source: acmeanalytics.com/resources/ecommerce-attribution-guide

Share of Voice

Share of Voice compares your brand's visibility with competitor visibility across the selected query set.

“When AI engines talk about this category, how much of the conversation includes your brand?”

GEO Visibility Score

A score that summarizes brand visibility across selected AI search signals.

Possible inputs

  • Mention rate
  • Citation rate
  • Competitor share
  • Accuracy
  • Authority
  • Stability

Note — the score is configurable and should be validated over time.

Query Opportunity Score

A score that helps prioritize which query gaps deserve action first.

  • Visibility gap
  • Competitor presence
  • Citation opportunity
  • SERP difficulty
  • Commercial intent
  • Question depth
  • Measurement cost

One-Time Audit

Best for

Teams that want a snapshot before committing to ongoing tracking.

Steps

  1. 1.Create project
  2. 2.Add competitors
  3. 3.Add priority queries
  4. 4.Run audit
  5. 5.Review gaps
  6. 6.Export action list

Output

A clear view of where your brand appears, where it is missing, and which opportunities matter most.

Monthly Monitoring

Best for

SEO and growth teams tracking movement over time.

Steps

  1. 1.Select priority query clusters
  2. 2.Run monthly visibility checks
  3. 3.Compare changes
  4. 4.Review competitor movement
  5. 5.Update content and citation actions

Output

A recurring view of AI visibility trends.

Competitor Deep Dive

Best for

Teams that need to understand why competitors are appearing more often.

Steps

  1. 1.Select competitor set
  2. 2.Run query cluster audit
  3. 3.Compare mentions and citations
  4. 4.Review cited sources
  5. 5.Identify content and authority gaps

Output

A competitor visibility map and source gap analysis.

Agency Client Report

Best for

Agencies offering AI visibility as a client service.

Steps

  1. 1.Create client project
  2. 2.Add brand and competitors
  3. 3.Run audit
  4. 4.Segment opportunities
  5. 5.Export client-ready report

Output

A measurable AI search visibility deliverable.

Enterprise Tracking

Best for

Teams managing multiple brands, regions, products, or business units.

Steps

  1. 1.Create multiple projects
  2. 2.Define market and language settings
  3. 3.Assign competitors by project
  4. 4.Configure recurring runs
  5. 5.Monitor usage and credits
  6. 6.Export custom reports or use API

Output

A scalable AI visibility tracking workflow.

Visibility Results

Shows how your brand and competitors appeared for each query and engine.

Includes

  • Query
  • Engine
  • Brand mention
  • Brand citation
  • Competitor mention
  • Citation URLs
  • Sentiment
  • Accuracy flags
  • Run timestamp

Query Scores

Shows how each query is scored and segmented.

  • GEO Visibility Score
  • Query Opportunity Score
  • Opportunity segment
  • Recommended action
  • Priority level

Competitor Gaps

Shows where competitors are mentioned or cited and your brand is missing.

Use this to

  • Find competitor-led query clusters
  • Identify sources competitors benefit from
  • Build comparison and alternative content
  • Strengthen authority signals

Recommended Actions

Turns findings into practical next steps.

  • Content action
  • Citation action
  • Authority action
  • Accuracy action
  • Monitoring action

How credits work

Credits are used when focadio runs analysis across queries, AI engines, SERP data, competitors, and repeat checks.

Credit usage may increase based on

  • Number of queries
  • Number of AI engines
  • Number of competitors
  • SERP analysis depth
  • Repeat runs for stability
  • Reporting and export requirements

Best practice — start with priority query clusters, review the first audit, then expand tracking to more queries and engines.

API access for advanced workflows

Enterprise teams can use API access to connect projects, runs, results, and scores to internal dashboards or reporting workflows.

Example API areas

  • Authentication
  • Projects
  • Competitors
  • Queries
  • Runs
  • Results
  • Scores
  • Usage

Troubleshooting

My brand is not mentioned. What should I do?

Start by checking whether competitors are mentioned and which sources are cited. Then review content gaps, citation opportunities, and authority signals for that query cluster.

My brand is mentioned but not cited. What does that mean?

It means AI may know your brand but is not using your owned or preferred sources as evidence. Review citation gaps and source opportunities.

Results changed between runs. Is that normal?

Yes. AI answers can vary. Use repeat checks and stability signals to understand whether a pattern is consistent.

Should I track every keyword?

No. Start with business-critical query clusters. AI visibility tracking works best when focused on queries that influence buying decisions.

Ready?

Ready to run your first audit?

Set up your brand, competitors, and target queries to see where your AI visibility gaps are.